Mission and objectivesThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. The goal of FAO is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. http://www.fao.org/home/en/ This UNV assignment is part of FAO’s Emergency program, especially in developing a communication strategy and appropriate communication and visibility tools.
ContextFAO human interest stories are indeed an evidence record of outcome result of FAO work in Myanmar linking to different aspects of SDGs. Women Savings Credit Scheme training of trainer manual is designed to assist trainers who will conduct a 3-day WSCS concept (TOT) training course for women's savings and credit schemes implementation or integration projects supported by FAO Myanmar. The first training TOT session will be organized when the assigned project staff and community volunteers are ready to begin the project implementation. Then, the trained project staff will lead the second WSCS concept and banking cycle operation training for the WSCS management committee after the establishment of WSCS and the formation of its management committee. The overall goal of WSCS concept (TOT) training is to enhance the knowledge, skills, and confidence of project staff, WSCS leaders and community volunteers in leading and facilitating banking cycle operations and community mobilization.
Task DescriptionDuring 12 weeks of this assignment, we are seeking an Online Volunteer to support us by copy editing on human interest stories, and manuals in English. To this end the Online Volunteer will be asked to: - Check internal consistency of the text, data, figures (including maps), tables, boxes, cross-references and consistency of references in the text against the bibliographic reference list. - Improve style, flow, clarity and quality of the language and readability. - Check appropriateness of photos (including captions and copyright) used in the document, bearing in mind relevance to content, gender and geographical balance. - Correct grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and typos, ensuring consistent and correct use of currency symbols and numbers. - Ensure that FAOSTYLE has been applied and country names are correct (as per FAO NOCS) in the correct order (alphabetical if no specified order or ranking). - Check against available on-line resources (FAO house style; FAO terminology portal http://www.fao.org/faoterm, FAO country names portal http://termportal.fao.org/faonocs/appl/, Publishing at FAO – Strategy and guidance, etc.) - Deliver edited text, in Word in track-changes mode as well as a clean version including: all objects (tables, figures, boxes, photos, etc.), their numbering and cross-reference in text (use of Word captions/cross-reference function for automatic renumbering of objects) ; document structure (heading levels to be clearly differentiated using heading styles, to allow proper layout by the graphic designer); references and bibliography (verify accuracy and make corrections); list of acronyms ; numbers in general (use of non-breaking space for thousands, etc.) - Flag any problems that require decisions relating to the substance of the work. - Perform two rounds of corrections following divisional quality checks. The Online Volunteer will have to complete up to 10 human interest stories and 1 training manual during the assignment.
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